Last day of summer

The girlies go back to school tomorrow. DH escorted them to Meet the Teacher night on Friday. They were bouncing-off-the-walls excited. PS and TT got the teachers they wanted. SS did not, but the way it worked out is really great.

SS and TT's teachers will be team teaching this year. SS's teacher will handle math and science for both classes and TT's teacher will handle language and social studies for both classes. So they will have the same teachers for all subjects!!! This is a dream come true for a mom of twins, and will make my life much, much easier. They were not doing this when PS was in 3rd grade, so it was a very pleasant surprise.

PS is assigned to the super-cool male science teacher for homeroom. I am thrilled for her because she LOVES science. And this teacher runs the Lego Mindstorm robotics program that PS is dying to be involved with. He told her that she should be a shoo-in since she is such a science nut and was in his science clubs last year. She will also be in the same class as her BFF for the first time ever. It will be interesting to see how that works out.

All of the kids are going to be up for big changes. I think 3rd grade is a big transition year, and PS's 6th grade curriculum sounds very challenging. She is in pre-AP math--I hope that I can still help her!

Of course, the next few weeks will be insane, as we get back into the routine of getting everybody out the door in the morning, and the dinner, homework, baths before a school-night bedtime rush in the evenings. Plus their fall activities, and only having a few hours each evening to fit it all in.

And the forms, my god the forms. Every year I start cursing at the number of forms I am required to fill out. So far it is 14 per kid (42!!!). But those are just the official school district forms. There will be more from each teacher, the PTA, the specials teachers, etc. The freaking forms drive me to cursing every single year. This year I finally got smart and just left the first name blank and photocopied them all, so at least I only had to fill out one of each form.

Now I just need to iron PS's first day of school outfit (why did I let her pick out something that had to be ironed?) and I think we're all set.